scholarly journals Vulnerability to psychopathology and creativity: The role of approach-avoidance motivation and novelty seeking.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthijs Baas ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Jessie Koen ◽  
Nathalie C. Boot ◽  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Keyword(s):  
Novelty Seeking ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Approach Avoidance

The curvilinear relationship between within-person creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance: the moderating role of approach/avoidance motivations

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 2073-2091
Author(s):  
Ci-Rong Li ◽  
Yanyu Yang ◽  
Chen-Ju Lin ◽  
Ying Xu
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Level Model ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
Creative Self

PurposeThis research adopts a dynamic self-regulation framework to test whether there is a curvilinear relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level. Furthermore, to establish a boundary condition of the predicted relationship, the authors build a cross-level model and examine how approach motivation and avoidance motivation moderate the complex relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance.Design/methodology/approachTo obtain results from a within-person analysis, the authors collect multi-source data from 125 technicians who provided monthly reports over an 8-month period.FindingsThe authors find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level and differential moderating effects of approach/avoidance motivations.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first to challenge the assumption that creative self-efficacy always has a positive linear relationship with creativity. It provides a more complete view of the complex pattern between creative self-efficacy and creativity at the within-person level.

scholarly journals Motivated Cognition: Effects of Reward, Emotion, and Other Motivational Factors Across a Variety of Cognitive Domains

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Madan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Semantic Processing ◽  
Emotional Memory ◽  
Motivated Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Approach Avoidance

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that motivation influences cognitive processing. The breadth of these effects is extensive and span influences of reward, emotion, and other motivational processes across all cognitive domains. As examples, this scope includes studies of emotional memory, value-based attentional capture, emotion effects on semantic processing, reward-related biases in decision making, and the role of approach/avoidance motivation on cognitive scope. Additionally, other less common forms of motivation–cognition interactions, such as self-referential and motoric processing can also be considered instances of motivated cognition. Here I outline some of the evidence indicating the generality and pervasiveness of these motivation influences on cognition, and introduce the associated ‘research nexus’ at Collabra: Psychology.

scholarly journals To Approach or to Avoid? Motivation Differentially Mediates the Effect of Hardiness on Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Military Personnel

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Wang ◽  
Janet Yuen-Ha Wong ◽  
Linkun Zhai ◽  
Ruicheng Wu ◽  
Tianhao Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Approach Avoidance

Objective. To investigate the mediation effect of approach/avoidance motivation between hardiness and depressive symptoms. Methods. Cross-sectional design was utilized. Two independent samples of military servicemen (G1: military personnel in the Armed Forces; G2: Chinese army military cadets) (n1 = 98, n2 =140) were sampled and investigated. The assessment tools of hardiness scale (DRS), behavioral activation and inhibition scales (BAS/BIS), and Center for Epidemiological Survey-Depression Scale (CES-D)/Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were used. General linear model was conducted to examine the predictive role of hardiness (DRS) and motivation (BAS/BIS) on depressive symptoms (CES-D or BDI). The mediating role of BAS/BIS between hardiness and depressive symptoms was examined. Results. (1) Across army soldiers and military medical university cadets, hardiness (β=-0.394, P<0.001) and behavioral inhibition (β=0.297, P<0.001) significantly predicted depressive symptoms. (2) For soldiers only, behavioral inhibition mediated the significant association between hardiness and depressive symptoms (β=-0.043, SE=0.027, 95%CI=-0.130~-0.008). (3) For cadets only, behavioral activation-Drive significantly predicted depressive symptoms (β=-0.237, P=0.012), and hardiness operates through behavioral activation-Drive to influence depressive symptoms (β=-0.057, SE=0.036, 95%CI=-0.151~-0.078). Conclusion. Individuals who are low in hardiness and behavioral activation-Drive and who are high in behavioral inhibition showed more severe depressive symptoms. The relationship between hardiness and depressive symptoms was mediated by behavioral activation-Drive in cadets and behavioral inhibition in soldiers. The proposed model offers a useful approach for the development of hardiness training programs to alter approach/avoidance motivation in the military context. Future training program of hardiness could lay more emphasis on promotion of perseverance in pursuing goals in hardy individuals, which may in turn improve active coping.

scholarly journals Examining the role of approach-avoidance and autonomous-controlled motivation in predicting goal progress over time

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn M. Werner ◽  
Marina Milyavskaya ◽  
Richard Koestner
Keyword(s):  
Model Comparison ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Approach And Avoidance ◽  
Goal Progress ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Controlled Motivation ◽  
Bayesian Model Comparison ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
Over Time

In the present research, we examined the role of approach-avoidance and autonomous-controlled motivation in predicting goal progress over time. At the beginning of the semester, participants (n1 = 240; n2 = 159) identified goals that they planned to pursue and reported their motivation. At the end of the semester, they indicated how much progress they made on each goal. Multilevel analyses confirmed our hypothesis that autonomous motivation was the most consistent predictor of goal progress, especially at the within-person level. That is, people made more progress on goals that were pursued for autonomous reasons compared to their other goals, whereas controlled, approach, and avoidance motivation were unrelated to goal progress. Across both studies, interactions between autonomous-controlled and approach-avoidance were inconsistent. Bayesian model comparison further substantiated our finding that autonomous motivation was the best predictor of goal progress.

Social Motives Predict Loneliness During a Developmental Transition

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Nikitin ◽  
Alexandra M. Freund
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Developmental Transitions ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Low Levels

Abstract. Establishing new social relationships is important for mastering developmental transitions in young adulthood. In a 2-year longitudinal study with four measurement occasions (T1: n = 245, T2: n = 96, T3: n = 103, T4: n = 85), we investigated the role of social motives in college students’ mastery of the transition of moving out of the parental home, using loneliness as an indicator of poor adjustment to the transition. Students with strong social approach motivation reported stable and low levels of loneliness. In contrast, students with strong social avoidance motivation reported high levels of loneliness. However, this effect dissipated relatively quickly as most of the young adults adapted to the transition over a period of several weeks. The present study also provides evidence for an interaction between social approach and social avoidance motives: Social approach motives buffered the negative effect on social well-being of social avoidance motives. These results illustrate the importance of social approach and social avoidance motives and their interplay during developmental transitions.

Approach-avoidance motivation moderates emotion regulation and affects goal attainment

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Kozonis ◽  
Elliot Berkman ◽  
Thery Prok ◽  
Matthew Lieberman ◽  
Shelly Gable
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Avoidance Motivation ◽  
Approach Avoidance
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